There are many things parents can do to ensure that their kids are eating healthy. Make sure you always have fruit and vegetables available. One quick and easy snack your children can make is apples/bananas with peanut butter. To make this easy on them cut up some slices before and place the fruit in bags. Another idea is to make fun snacks the night before. More ideas can be found on: www.parents.com
The best snacks when on a diet are fruits and veggies get fruit cups or veggie dips for more simple and healthy snack ideas visit WWW.allrecipes.com or healthypicks.com
There are recipes all over the place for meals and snacks. Go to a store and buy a cookbook or look around the Internet/recipes.com. You're bound to find something.
A good party snack is portable and easy to eat such as deviled eggs, pigs in a blanket, vegetable crudites with dips, and cheese cubes. There are many easy dip recipes to make including curried mayonnaise with mustard. This is easily made by mixing 1-2 tablespoons of mustard into a cup of mayonnaise and adding curry powder to taste.
You can make you snack healthier by adding fruit or nuts. For example, yogurt is a popular snack, but it can have a lot of sugars. Try adding fresh fruit or some finely chopped nuts to make even healthier and yummier.
Just about any fruit of vegetable can make a tasty and good quality after school snack. An apple, for example, is a fruit that is really good and is packed with vitamins.
Some schools are removing snack machines but some are not. More and more high schools are losing snack machines.
My children who are 4 really enjoy peanut butter on celery. Sometimes we add raisins or chocolate chips. Also cheese crackers. I buy a block of cheese and then cut slices and put on a plate with crackers. Fruit is a very good snack also yogurt. Marshmellows are also a special treat/snack in our home.
You could talk about helping make copies on the copy machine, delivering interoffice memos, answering phones, cleaning areas (e.g. conference rooms, break rooms where people snack/eat lunch), and so forth.
Here are some healthy snack foods:1/2 cup of plain, non-fat yogurt with 1 cup of berriesCelery sticks with 2 tbsp. peanut butter and raisins1 cup broccoli and/or cauliflower with 2 tbsp. light dressing1 sliced apple and 2 tbsp. walnuts3/4 cup cooked oatmeal with non-fat milkA great place to find a list of healthy snack recipes and ideas is Snack-Girl.com.
This is an excellent idea as it will teach your kids great eating habits. Why not give them fruits, cheese, wheat crackers and turkey meat to make their own snack.
Make a potholder and demonstrate how you did it!
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